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[pertnear09]

I just wanted to point out, the issue is not quite so simple as you guys are thinking.
For some it may be ability to conceptualize abstracts, for others it can be remembering the procedures (if they were ever taught them).
Not every teacher or method taught is the same either.
When I was in 4th grade, we had just gotten to multiplication, barely even started, when I broke my arm very badly. Needed a few procedures and missed weeks of school. When I got back to class they had all been introduced to the concepts and my teacher told me to catch up by just sending more homework home. As if my father had the time to teach me or my mom was ever good at math herself. The class had 35 other students and the teacher didn't have the time to help me. I had a lot of trouble writing without my dominant hand, after months of bad grades the school finally loaned me a device for typing that was more like a keyboard with a tiny screen than a computer. I don't know what to call it, lol.
Point is, I got really behind, really discouraged, and gave up on understanding math. The class kept moving forward and that was that.
I got caught up in other subjects due to my love of reading.
How many other kids fall by the wayside would be hard for even statisticians to answer.

Actually, I lay that at the school's feet. They say they care. They should not have left you behind.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Good point, once again, Roses, you do an excellent job of articulating a problem I hadn't imagined.

I wasn't taught this either, btw, and was terrible at math myself. (Multiplication tables, arrrgghhh!) But it just seemed logical to me, how I figured it out. It wasn't really math or formulas at all.

The 10% being halved to 5% hadn't even occurred to me. I ended up just doing 9÷100, and then multiplying the result by 5 when I had the capacity to actually write it out without using my calculator.

 

[pertnear09]

I just figured 5% of a dollar is a nickel. A nickel times nine is 45. Add that to nine dollars.Thus, $9.45.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

The 10% being halved to 5% hadn't even occurred to me. I ended up just doing 9÷100, and then multiplying the result by 5 when I had the capacity to actually write it out without using my calculator.

See, 9 ÷ 100 does not compute in my brain. I would not be able to do it even with pencil and paper, and it would never occur to me to try to solve it that way. . How funny that there are so many different paths to the answer!

 

[azurbanclucker]

"Still broke" is the correct answer.

 

[bill3607]

Can you answer the following question without cheating?

If you are paid $9 per hour, what would your hourly rate be if you received a pay rise of 5 percent?

If you reply with the amount, please put it in a spoiler.

Spoiler: Is this a joke

$9.45 an hour

 

[Jenbirdee]

Can you answer the following question without cheating?

If you are paid $9 per hour, what would your hourly rate be if you received a pay rise of 5 percent?

If you reply with the amount, please put it in a spoiler.

how do you do a spoiler

 

[Jenbirdee]

Spoiler: spoiler

9.45

 

[Jenbirdee]

Spoiler: spoiler

I figured it out!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Spoiler: spoiler

I figured it out!

You sure did, and all by yourself, too! I had to have someone 'splain it to me. I only could find this spoiler, which I don't like:

whose idea was it to have TWO spoilers anyway?